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Few clubs in American golf carry quite the cultural weight of Burning Tree. Founded in 1922 and set on a rolling, wooded property in the Maryland suburbs just outside Washington, D.C., it has long been a gathering place for the capital's most powerful figures — presidents, cabinet members, and senators have walked its fairways for more than a century. Dwight Eisenhower was among its most devoted members, and the club became so associated with the Washington establishment that it attained an almost mythological status in the city's social fabric.
The course itself was designed by Alister MacKenzie's frequent collaborator and contemporary Devereaux Emmet, and later refined over the decades. It plays through mature hardwood forest that gives each hole a sense of seclusion despite the suburban surroundings, with firm, contoured greens that reward precision over power.
Burning Tree is also notable — and these days, genuinely rare — for remaining an all-male membership. That policy has kept it out of major championship rotation, but it has done nothing to diminish the course's place in the lore of American private golf.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medal · men | 7,040 | 74.1 | 127 | 71 |
| Member · men | 6,388 | 71.2 | 120 | 71 |
| Senior · men | 5,700 | 67.7 | 116 | 71 |
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